Once upon a time, a group of friends attending Florida Metropolitan University were hanging out and having dinner. As they sat down, the waiter came up to the table. As he proceeded to introduce himself by making small talk, he mentioned to a friend of mine that he liked his shirt and tie. A bit later in the conversation, he then mentioned how he liked his pants. Later in the evening, another friend saw the waiter looking at his rear end. He then proceeded to say “God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.†Ever since that moment, I have personally lived by that phrase. Lived it. Breathed it. Dreamed it. While at work one day, I was telling a co-worker about this incident, and mention that it is in the Bible that a man shall not lay with a man. He left it at that. From then on, I always knew that the Bible had condemned homosexuality. I just never knew where.
In the book of Genesis, God created a woman out one of Adam’s ribs. However, this was after he created another woman before Eve, whom was called Lilith. Watching a History Channel program one day about banned from the Bible is when I learned about the real first woman God created.
“When the Almighty created the first, solitary man, He said: It is not good for man to be alone. And He fashioned for man a woman from the earth, like him (Adam), and called her Lilith.†Soon, they began to quarrel with each other. She said to him: I will not lie underneath, and he said: I will not lie underneath but above, for you are meant to lie underneath and I to lie above. She said to him: We are both equal, because we are both created from the earth. But they did not listen to each other. Lilith was the woman that was responsible for all of this sexual immorality that we are living with today. The bible’s teachings soon were incorporated into legal sanctions, which is why we have enacted stiff criminal penalties for sexual molestation and rape. The other wide variety of sexual acts that were non-procreative (including homosexual behavior), occurred outside of marriage (e.g., sex between a man and woman who were not married), or violated traditions (e.g., sex between husband and wife with the woman on top) were just considered immoral and you will not be accepted into the Kingdom of God unless you repent.
Homosexuality as a Disease
The first attempts to classify homosexuality as a disease were made by the fledgling European sexologist movement in the late nineteenth century. Havelock Ellis first theorized on the origins of homosexuality, proposing that homosexuals, or ‘inverts’, were the product of a combination of upbringing and biological factors and that those not predisposed to homosexuality could become so if they had ‘weak characters’ and were so influenced. With this in mind, children who are adopted by gay couples will be more inclined to be influenced that homosexuality is alright, thus becoming a homosexual themselves. If a gay couple adopts a baby and that baby grows up, what will happen when that child asks the question that all children asks. Where do babies come from? How will a gay couple be able to explain this to a child? At this young age, they are easily influenced one way or another. This can be one possible explanation as to why gay advocates are pushing for gay adoption, so that they can influence the younger generation into becoming more tolerant of this disease, this sexual immorality.
Homosexuality is a disease, a chemical imbalance in the brain. However, we need to think laterally if we want to consider it at all, and I don’t see a reason why most people need to know why aside from anthropological curiosity. Let’s think about the spheres of influence and possibility. How young people can be influenced by the sight of two gay people kissing and holding hands. This is not natural. This is not what God intended. In Leviticus 18:22, under Unlawful Sexual Relations, “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”Â
There have been studies that do indeed show a higher chemical proportion in the brain of homosexual men than in heterosexual men, which is not genetic but occurs in development of the fetus. But this alone does not determine homosexuality. It is the degree of chemical imbalance, social factors and other variables that are still unknown that add up to the “choice.†With that said, it should be viewed as a choice that can be curable with unconditional love, agape love.
Most psychologists do conclude that homosexuality is a curable condition even though they all agree that it is a choice. In fact, in the article The Seeds That Grew, the cure is unconditional love, or agape love. God loves each and every one of us unconditionally. Just like that older couple that took Melissa under their wing with open arms. It allowed Melissa to bring God into her heart and to accept what God was telling her. God was able to tell her why homosexuality was so wrong. As she was growing up, she could not understand why she did not like boys? She could not understand why God let her go down this road if it was so wrong. The fact of the matter is that God created each and everyone of us to have free will. We all have to be responsible for the choices we make. Homosexuality may be a choice, but it is condemn by God and you must allow God into your heart and repent. Otherwise, you will not be allowed into the Kingdom of God.
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